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Saturday, 29 April 2017

Saturday Potpourri: An Urban Legend for you – I must be a bad person because I found this funny (and horrible)

Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of
forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was
dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive tank, flippers and face mask.

A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns,
but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive
identification. Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad diver
ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that, on the day of
the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast -- some 20 MILES away
from the forest.

The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible,
called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets were
dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and
emptied. You guessed it! One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the
Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300m in the air.
Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10") of the fire.